ScriptHelper and syntheticResources

[Markus Pallo]

Hi,

i am posting this message again, because first posting was included in 
another thread and not a new one .... And i am still waiting for answer :-)


As described we are using sling with an object mapper.

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wall (sling:resourceType = "wall")
|
|--> brickgroup1 (sling:resourceType = "brickgroup")
|         |
|         |--> brick11 (sling:resourceType = "statichtmlbrick")
|         |--> brick12 (sling:resourceType = "contentbrick")
|         |--> brick13 (sling:resourceType = "contentbrick")
|
|--> brickgroup2 (sling:resourceType = "brickgroup")
        |
        |--> brick21 (sling:resourceType = "contentbrick")
        |--> brick22 (sling:resourceType = "contentbrick")
        |--> brick23 (sling:resourceType = "statichtmlbrick")
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If we include other scripts to a script, we always use
----
sling.include(brickgroup.getPath());
----

inside the script, we adapt resource to our class with an AdapterFactory.


This means, the node has always to be retrieved and mapped again by the 
OR mapper.


So i am wondering if it could be useful to have a new include method on 
SlingHelper to handle

public void include(Resource resource, RequestDispatcherOptions options) {
// doing similar than other includes, but with resource
}


And than i could create a PojoSyntheticResource and include directly in 
the script. Benefit its already resolved and mapped....
example:

sling.include(new PojoSyntheticResource(brickgroup));

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public class PojoSyntheticResource extends SyntheticResource {


  Base base;

  public PojoSyntheticResource(ResourceResolver resourceResolver, Base 
base) {
      this(resourceResolver, base.getPath(), base.getResourceType());
      this.base = base;
  }

  /**
   * Creates a synthetic resource with the given <code>path</code> and
   * <code>resourceType</code>.
   */
  protected PojoSyntheticResource(ResourceResolver resourceResolver, 
String path, String resourceType) {
      super(resourceResolver, path, resourceType);
  }

  @Override
  public <Type> Type adaptTo(Class<Type> type) {
      if (Base.class.isAssignableFrom(type)) {
          return (Type) base;
      }
      return null;
  }
}

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Do you like to have an scriptHelper method like this ? than i would open 
an jira issue. Or do you any other suggestions ?



Markus